[ Breathe, Breathe Slowly, Breathe ]
[ Get Up The Courage To Believe ]
[ In The Dr.’s ]
[ So You Won’t Have The Urge To Get Up &
Leave ]
[ Find Strength & Bend @ The Hips ]
[ As You Keep, A Stiff Upper Lip ]
[ Don’t Shed A Tear ]
[ In Fear ]
[ Just Know That You Are In Good Space ]
[ While You Are Here ]
[ Have The Confidence ]
[ To Figure Out The Diffrrence ]
[ Between The Reasons To Stay ]
[ & The Reasons To Get Up & Walk Away ]
[ What Are The Reasons That Sound Any Good? ]
[ What Are The Ways ]
[ That Could Be Misunderstood? ]
[ Can Those Reasons Be Found In A Reasonable Time? ]
[ Will They Be As Obvious ]
[ As The Difference Between A Lemon & A Lime ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Author: rdvoe165
I Am A 62yrs Young Man, That Just Enjoys Writing Short Poetic Stories From My Thoughts. I Hope That You Enjoy Them As Much As I Do Writing Them.
(1158)▪︎[ New Years Eve … 12•31•2020 ]
[ Happy New Years To Me, Happy New Years To Me ]
[ I Do Not See ]
[ How Much Worse This Night Could Be ]
[ I Am Laid Up With A Bad Back ]
[ & I Am Sitting On The Bed ]
[ Leaning On A Cold Ice Pack ]
[ BD Is Being Taken To Urgent Care ]
[ So That Means Everyone Else Went There ]
[ In About 5½ More Hours This Horrible Year
Will Be Gone ]
[ Is That A Sign That We All Can Move On? ]
[ If People Think That The Pandemic Will End, They Are
Oh So Wrong ]
[ Whenever The News Talks About The Days Totals That
Have Died ]
[ It Sure Looks Like The Virus Is Still Going Strong ]
[ Millions Of People Think That We All Have Been Saved ]
[ I Just Do Not Think So ]
[ Because Alot Of Society Never Behaved ]
[ Always Be Ready For The Next Great Moment ]
[ Big Or Small ]
[ Just Don’t Make A Stupid Comment ]
[ That Ruins It All ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1123)▪︎[ Not A Clue … 12•18•2020 ]
[ Will There Be Any Clues? ]
[ If The Incoming Year Of 2021 ]
[ Will Bring Us ANY Good News? ]
[ 2020 Is Ending With Me Having Another Surgery On My
Left Foot ]
[ The Past Fire Season Here In Oregon ]
[ Left Most Of Our State Covered With Ashes
& Soot ]
[ The Fires In Oregon This Past Year Were So Bad ]
[ It Was The Very Worst Fire Season That Oregon Ever Had ]
[ 2020 Was A Very Very Hard Year ]
[ In 2020 There Were Alot Of Tears ]
[ Causing So Much Fear ]
[ Lots Of People Consumed Many Beers ]
[ Around Every Corner There Seemed To Be An Argument
In The Making ]
[ Whenever I Was Showing That I Was Unhappy ]
[ I Was Not Faking ]
[ Faking Things Is Not What I Normally Do ]
[ I Would Not Like This To Be Done To Me, Too ]
[ What Else Could Happen Before This Year Ends? ]
[ Will Someone Send Me A ( DEAR JOHN ) Text ]
[ Because They No Longer Want To Be Friends? ]
[ That Would Just Be About My Luck ]
[ If I Was To Try To Throw Luck Around To Others ]
[ It Would Look Like A Wounded Duck ]
[ Somehow There Must Be A Correction ]
[ Because ( MURPHY’s LAW ) ]
[ Works Twice Against Me When Thrown In My Direction ]
[ That Was Told To Me Me By A Friend Of A Friend
A Couple Of Decades Ago ]
[ When I Was Told I Said Three Words ]
[ ( YES, I KNOW ) ]
[ So I Don’t Even Try ]
[ & You May Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Then I Would Say ( GO ASK THAT OTHER GUY ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1138)▪︎[ Happy 12•25 To All … 12•24•2020 ]
[ Here I Stand On Another December 25th Celebrating The
Day ]
[ When I Asked Nicole The Biggest, Most Important Question
That I Had Ever Asked ]
[ & She Answered With An ( EH, OKAY ) ]
[ Well Actually She Did Not Answer Me @ That Time ]
[ So Instead, She Gave Me Tears ]
[ Maybe Because She Saw How Big Of A Mountain This Would
Be To Climb ]
[ So This Will Be Our 27th, December 25th Together ]
[ In Marriage, Things Sometimes Change As Fast As The
Oregon Weather ]
[ This Years December 25th Will Be Different Because I Am
Enjoying The Company Of Two New Friends ]
[ Friends & Family Means So Much More To Me Than
Others Can Comprehend ]
[ My Circle Is As Small ]
[ As I Am Tall ]
[ But … I Do Not Mind That @ All ]
[ Z., You Came Into My Life On The 29th Of May ]
[ Maria Stopped Being My Cargiver 4 Days Earlier ]
[ Much To My Dismay ]
[ Because I Had No Say ]
[ For Things To Turn Out That Way ]
[ So When I Opened My Door & Met You, Z. ]
[ I Really Wondered If You Would Be ]
[ Patient Enough ]
[ To Take Care Of Me? ]
[ I Think It Took One Shift To Find Out ]
[ That You Could Walk ]
[ The Talk ]
[ Because You Were Definitely As Good As Her Agency
Talked About ]
[ So Z, Tag, You Are It ]
[ When I Wanted Someone To Fit ]
[ You Come Into My House 4 Days A Week ]
[ & You Have NEVER Complained One Little Bit ]
[ Also Since Day One You Talked About This
Incredible, Hard Working & Respectful Man ]
[ I am Usually Kind Of A Very Private Guy ]
[ But Right Away, Big M., I Became Your Biggest Fan ]
[ The Way That Z. Talked About You ]
[ & Talked About The Things That You Do ]
[ I Decided That I Had To Meet This Guy ]
[ & Have My Own Point Of View ]
[ Through My Own Two Eyes ]
[ So Far, So Good ]
[ & The Things That You Are & Have Been Going Through ]
[ Are 100% Understood ]
[ I Feel You Protect Me Through Your Thoughts ]
[ & I Thank You Lots ]
[ I Am Always Here For You To Give You Much
Needed Advice ]
[ I Will Be Brutally Honest ]
[ Even If It Doesn’t Come Across As Being Nice ]
[ Big M & Z. You Have Become Important In My Life ]
[ Thank You For Taking Time Out Of Your Day ]
[ To Spend Some Time Here With Me, My Son & My Wife ]
[ I Root For You Two Making It More Than Any Other
Couple I’ve Known ]
[ Except, Of Course, My Own ]
[ Staying Together Is Very, Very Hard To Do ]
[ Always Tell Each Other ( I LOVE YOU ) ]
[ When They Are Going To Be Out Of Your View ]
[ You Can Never Feel It, Say It, Mean It Or Hear It
Too Much ]
[ Say It With A Warm & Loving Touch ]
[ Reach Out ]
[ When There’s Doubt ]
[ Care ]
[ & Share ]
[ Always Be There ]
[ Anytime ]
[ From Anywhere ]
[ Friends & Family Really IS What Makes The World Go
Around ]
[ Because I Have Found ]
[ They Are The Ones That Help Keep ]
[ My Feet ]
[ Firmly Planted On The Ground! ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1134)▪︎[ One Hard Year … 12•23•2020 ]
[ When Will The Year 2020 Give Us Good News? ]
[ If The Year Was Set To Music ]
[ It Would Definitely Be Someone Singing The Blues ]
[ The Year Started With A Bang But It Sure Is Ending
With A Whimper ]
[ If This Was A Cinderella Movie ]
[ She Would Never Be Able To Find Her Slipper ]
[ Or Was It A Brand New ]
[ Shoe? ]
[ It Started Out Being Made Of Gold ]
[ But Because This Year Had Been A Year Of Death & Sickness ]
[ That Missing Shoe Would Be Torn Up & Old ]
[ Year 2020 Had Alot More Downs Than Ups ]
[ There Were So Many Mountains To Climb ]
[ & Long Roads Laden With Bumps ]
[ A Bumpy Ride Would Be Putting It Mildly ]
[ Getting Better By The 1st Of The Year ]
[ Will Be Highly ]
[ Unlikely ]
[ Some Say That This Vaccine Is Like The Lone Ranger Riding
In, To Save The Day ]
[ Others Don’t Think So ]
[ Because Most Of Society Won’t Change Their Ways ]
[ Far Too Many People Only Care About Themselves ]
[ & Refuse To Wear A Mask ]
[ Even After They’ve Been Nicely Asked ]
[ To Help Save Someone Else ]
[ 2020 Has Brought Out The Selfish Side In Some ]
[ Okay, Many ]
[ The Many Reasons They Follow A False Messiah Is So Dumb ]
[ It Is Uncanny ]
[ Those People Will Never Listen To Reason ]
[ All That Some Of Them Care About Right Now ]
[ Will Be The Bowl Winners Of This Years College Football
Season ]
[ To A Man ]
[ They Would Never Reach Out Their Hand ]
[ To Help A Stranger ]
[ Because Their Head Has Been Buried In The Sand ]
[ Good Times In 2020 Have Been Very Lean ]
[ Good Times This Past Year ]
[ Have Been Very Few & Far In-Between ]
[ So After The Year 2020 Is All Done ]
[ Hope Is All We Have ]
[ For The Incoming Year, Of 2021 ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1116)▪︎[ What Is Eternal? … 12•16•2020 ]
[ When People Say ( HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL ) What Do They
Really Mean? ]
[ Are They Putting Their Faith ]
[ Into Something That Is Sight Unseen? ]
[ How Much Is Faith Worth? ]
[ Do People Always Have To Have Faith Only When Their
Circumstances Could ]
[ Should ]
[ Or Would ]
[ Get Worse? ]
[ Nobody Wants Things To Get Worse By Any Means ]
[ It Could Be As Detrimental To Some ]
[ As Having An Anaphylactic Shock Reaction After Eating
Some Beans ]
[ Being Killed Would Be The Very Worse, Of Course ]
[ You Never Want Your Last Ride Through Town ]
[ Being The Only Passenger In The Back Of A Hearse ]
[ But Some Say Having Hope Is A Terrible Thing
To Count On ]
[ Alot Of Life Can Go By ]
[ By The Time All Of Your Hope Is Gone ]
[ You Can’t Physically Hold Hope In The Palm Of
Your Hand ]
[ Is Relying On Hope Like Burying Your Head In The Sand? ]
[ Not Working Towards Anything ]
[ But Expecting Something ]
[ To Happen ]
[ But When? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(168)▪︎[ Society … 2•24•2021 ]
[ Why Do We In Society Consider Someone A Threat ]
[ When That Person Doesn’t Look Like Someone We
Have Never Met? ]
[ Okay, You Don’t Understand Their Ways ]
[ Should That Be The Reason That You Don’t Want
Them To Stay? ]
[ The Question Is ( WHY? ) ]
[ Are You Judging Them With Your Eyes? ]
[ Maybe You Don’t Hear What You Need ]
[ You Don’t See How They Eat ]
[ Maybe The Parents Do Not Feed ]
[ Their Children Meat ]
[ It Could Be Because Of Their Religious Values ]
[ Or Their Personal Views ]
[ Not Everyone Is The Same ]
[ Not Every Race Calls Each Other By The Same Kinds
Of Names ]
[ Not Everybody That Is Hairy ]
[ Turns Out To Be Scary ]
[ & Not Every Bald Man ]
[ Will Do Everything That He Can ]
[ Some People Lie ]
[ Because Others Have Raised The Bar Really High ]
[ & They Have Never Met ]
[ Where It Has Been Set ]
[ So There Are Overachievers ]
[ Underachievers ]
[ & Bottom Feeders ]
[ Time Will Tell ]
[ If Someone Is Not Doing Too Well ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(201)▪︎[ Ride Away … 3•10•2021 ]
[ Do You Wake Up Every Morning Hoping For
The Best ]
[ But Expect The Worst? ]
[ All Through The Days It Feels Like Taking Test
After Test ]
[ Trying To Keep One Step Ahead Of The Curse ]
[ The Curse That Has Been Over Your Head Since
Your Birth ]
[ By Always Making You Prove Your Worth ]
[ Day In & Day Out ]
[ You Have Always Needed To Convince Those Surrounding
You That Have Doubt ]
[ Doubt About Your Sanity ]
[ Then Accusing You Of Vanity ]
[ But Sometimes You Let Your Mind Drift High Into
The Clouds ]
[ When You Are Surrounded By Crowds ]
[ That Are Loud ]
[ Because You Really Do Not Have Much To Say ]
[ & You Have Never Fit In ]
[ When You Will One Day ]
[ How Do You Begin? ]
[ Do You Cause A Commotion Before Uttering Your
First Words ]
[ What If No One Is Paying Attention? ]
[ What If You Are Never Heard? ]
[ I Think That You Should Turn Your Back ]
[ Then Ride Into The Sunset ]
[ Grab Your Backpack ]
[ Then Walk Away & Forget ]
[ About All Of Those Who You Have Just Met ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
( 286)▪︎[ 6 Feet Apart … 4•6•2021 ]
[ How Do We Bring Each Other ]
[ Back Together ]
[ When We Are Told To Still Stay 6 Feet Apart? ]
[ Will Intimacy ]
[ Now Be A Progressive Art? ]
[ Always Learning Something New ]
[ Always Paying Attention To All & Any Social Cues ]
[ How Do I Touch Someone Without Touching Them
@ The Same Time? ]
[ Would It Really Matter If I Expressed My Love In A
Story That Will Rhyme? ]
[ The Big Problem With The Written Word ]
[ Is That There Is No Chance Of Any Emotion Being
Heard ]
[ Zero Highs & Way Too Many Lows ]
[ The Words Being Said Really Fast ]
[ But The Thinking Might Come To The Front Really Slow ]
[ Words & Sentences Sounding Like I Am Rebelling ]
[ But Being Thought & Expressed ]
[ Without The Obnoxious, Loud Yelling ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(294)▪︎[ Reinvent … 4•7•2021 ]
[ In This Period Of Your Life, Would This Be A Good
Time To Reinvent Your Outlook On Your Life? ]
[ Do You Need To Re-Evaluate Your Perceptions Of What
You Feel Is Wrong Or Right? ]
[ Maybe Something That Was ( RIGHT ) Before The ‘VID, Is
Now Considered Wrong ]
[ The Old Way Of Greeting Others Is Now Going, Going Gone ]
[ A Handshake Is Now Not The Proper Way To Greet ]
[ & A Person’s Personal Bubble Has Extended To Be @
Least Six Feet ]
[ Now The Act Of Someone Coming Up & Hugging You ]
[ Is Totally Taboo ]
[ Maybe A Touch Of Elbows ]
[ For Someone You Know ]
[ Being Socially Distant In It’s Most Basic Form ]
[ Is What Society Now Considers The Norm ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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